What are some of the political
reforms and public policies advocated by socialists and their allies on
the road to full socialism?

Consider what a top socialist
leader advocated in 1922:

WE DEMAND
THAT THE GOVERNMENT UNDERTAKE THE OBLIGATION ABOVE ALL OF PROVIDING CITIZENS
WITH ADEQUATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYMENT AND EARNING A LIVING.

THE ACTIVITIES OF
THE INDIVIDUAL MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO CLASH WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY,
BUT MUST TAKE PLACE WITHIN ITS CONFINES AND BE FOR THE GOOD OF ALL ...

WE DEMAND THE NATIONALIZATION
OF ALL BUSINESSES WHICH HAVE BEEN AMALGAMATED (INTO TRUSTS).

WE DEMAND THAT THE
STATE SHALL SHARE IN THE PROFITS OF LARGE INDUSTRIES.

WE DEMAND THAT PROVISION
FOR THE AGED SHALL BE MADE ON A VERY GREATLY INCREASED SCALE.

WE DEMAND A LAND-REFORM
SUITABLE TO OUR NATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, THE PASSING OF A LAW FOR THE CONFISCATION
OF LAND FOR COMMUNAL PURPOSES; THE ABOLITION OF INTEREST ON MORTGAGES,
AND PROHIBITION OF ALL SPECULATION IN LAND.

WE DEMAND AN AGRARIAN
REFORM SUITABLE TO OUR NATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; THE ENACTMENT OF A LAW TO
EXPROPRIATE WITHOUT COMPENSATION THE OWNERS OF ANY LAND THAT MAY BE NEEDED
FOR NATIONAL PURPOSES; THE ABOLITION OF GROUND RENTS; AND THE PROHIBITION
OF ALL SPECULATION IN LAND.

...THE STATE SHALL
ORGANIZE THOROUGHLY THE WHOLE CULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE NATION . . . THE CONCEPTION
OF THE STATE IDEA (THE SCIENCE OF CITIZENSHIP) SHALL BE TAUGHT IN THE SCHOOLS
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. WE DEMAND THAT SPECIALLY TALENTED CHILDREN
OF POOR PARENTS, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR STATION OR OCCUPATION, SHALL BE EDUCATED
AT THE COST OF THE STATE.

IT IS THE DUTY OF
THE STATE TO HELP RAISE THE STANDARD OF THE NATION'S HEALTH BY PROVIDING
MATERNITY WELFARE CENTRES, BY PROHIBITING JUVENILE LABOUR, BY INCREASING
PHYSICAL FITNESS THROUGH THE INTRODUCTION OF COMPULSORY GAMES AND GYMNASTICS.
. . .

(WE) COMBAT THE MATERIALISTIC
SPIRIT WITHIN AND OUTSIDE US, AND ARE CONVINCED THAT A PERMANENT RECOVERY
OF OUR PEOPLE CAN ONLY PROCEED WITHIN ON THE FOUNDATION OF "THE COMMON
GOOD BEFORE THE INDIVIDUAL GOOD."

-- From the "Twenty-Five Point" Programme of the German National Socialist
Workers Party, authored by Adolf Hitler and others on February 24, 1920.
(Konrad Heiden's translation in A History of National Socialism)

Politicians such
as Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, and Al Gore were not the first
to push for socialistic national health care schemes, political controls
on wages and prices, and land grabs in the name of the "national good"
or a phony "environmentalism"; far too many want to solve real or imagined
problems by using government meddling (up to and including totalitarian
tyranny) in peoples' lives and in their businesses. The consequences have
been tragic.

Socialism -- the Ultimate
Coercive Monopoly(in the name of "the people" of course)

Anytime you give to government
the responsibility and authority to provide government-made jobs, old-age
financial security, "free" health care, and "free" education and indoctrination
of children, it will control the lives of the people who live under its
jurisdiction, and individual liberty and freedom of choice are sacrificed.

Sure, security is important -- but anyone
can find security from a prison warden. But, despite socialist promises,
bureaucratic programs of the political state cannot guarantee security
anyway. Instead the socialist state uses its coercive powers to seize
the wealth and properties of those who have earned financial security by
their own hands. Socialism does not help poor people; rather, socialism
makes people poor so that they have to become dependent on the socialist
state and therefore beholden to those in charge of the government.

Socialism is the ultimate exploitative
monopoly. No competitors (peaceful market alternatives) are allowed.
All major industries, including food, banking, transportation, communication,
health care, education, and insurance are owned and operated as state monopolies.

Socialism is the ultimate system of
government intervention in the peaceful business affairs and other voluntary
relationships of the people -- and the socialist state tends to become
the legal tool for running interference on behalf of the most corrupt interests
in society at the expense of peaceful businessmen and workers. After
all, what could be more monopolistic than a system in which the political
state owns or controls the major industries -- while the privileged monopolistic
clique owns or controls the state and uses it as a sort of legal holding
company for its own interests? When the government "nationalizes"
a business or entire industry, the monopolistic elite is just using government
intervention to take over and control what would otherwise be its competitors.
And the alternatives and choices available to consumers for obtaining what
they need and want are greatly diminished.

Socialism is a system of authoritarian
political control over the individual by bureaucratic central planners
-- very similar to fascism or communism. Socialism promises to use
the power of the political state to forcibly redistribute resources (peoples'
earnings) so that the basic needs of all will be met. To do this,
power must be centralized in the hands of the political state. When
government has power over the lives and properties of its citizens, the
citizens have no freedom -- only the meager privileges the state programs
may dole out to them. In practice, socialism's redistribution of
wealth ends up with bureaucrats doling out poverty and dependency on the
state.

If government could give you everything
you want, it must have the power to take everything you've got. This
is the real agenda of socialism. It is the confiscation of property
in the name of a "fairer" distribution of it. It is the total political
institutionalization of violence and exploitation in the name of abolishing
exploitation. And the dirty little secret is that socialism is a
tool of big, monopolistic interests behind the scenes while their front
men act in the name of "the people" (or in the name of "the race" or the
"working class" or the "New World Order" or the global environment)!

Sure, there are several different brands
of socialism -- at least as many types as there are would-be people-planners
who wish to impose their schemes to control the personal and economic lives
of other people. But are you willing to surrender your precious liberties
to a Socialist State which promises "security" for everyone or government-enforced
equality? Isn't this what Hitler and other socialists promised the
German people in his Nazi (national socialist) platform -- a country in
which government guarantees security and "equality" in exchange for giving
up individual freedom? Will Americans fall for the same scam?

Socialism is an old dream.
Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.